More from Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Cosmos (1980), p. 4For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)- Broca’s Brain (1979), Chapter 5, “Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the End of Science” (p. 73)
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
